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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <8362@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 15:35:43 GMT
References: <1495@osiris.UUCP> <2126@haddock.ISC.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: dig dis !

In article <2126@haddock.ISC.COM> eli@haddock.ima.isc.com (Elias Israel) writes:
| ...
| Seriously, I think that Pournelle underestimates both the potential
| market and the utility of Unix for the small business. The idea about
| putting it into ROM is interesting, though; I've heard it expressed
The HP Integra (sp?) has SysV in ROM.

| before. It certainly would be nifty to boot up a machine in only a few
How long does you system take?? I would be surprised to see a boot
(after normal shutdown) take a full minute on a personal system. I
assume only a few hundred MB of disk.

| seconds. Besides, wouldn't it be nice to have a root file system that
| you *couldn't* trash?
Serious question here... I would love such a root f/s. But I assume that
the root would have to be read only if it were in ROM, and I'm not sure
about mounting a writeable f/s on a read only f/s. For some reason I get
the impression that this couses problems, although I know you can do it.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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